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Home prices have risen steadily since the spring of 2012, but are now slowing a bit. The Fed’s coming taper, and how it affects mortgage rates, may contribute to that, economists say.
On Oahu, one man is clearing the way for native plants and animals to thrive.
In the 1940s, R. Buckminster Fuller converted grain bins into emergency housing. For a long time it seemed they had disappeared from the earth, but at least a dozen have survived in New Jersey.
Despite turbulence in Washington, China and Europe, which threatened to pull the world into another recession, stock prices just kept rising in 2013.
Mike Duggan must share power with an appointed emergency manager and confront vexing questions about the future of a city that has been losing population for decades.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 1, 2014, covering January 1, 2014.
Beyonce
Garth Brooks
One Direction
The Robertsons
Kelly Clarkson
2014Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (born 1910)[†]
Count Higashifushimi Kunihide was the titular head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya, an extinct branch of the Imperial House of Japan, and a Buddhist monk. He was the youngest brother of Empress Kōjun and was the maternal uncle of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. If he had kept his Imperial status, at the time of his death, at age 103, he would have been the longest-lived member, of the Imperial House of Japan. His Dharma name was Jigō (慈洽).
2014William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (born 1950)[†]
William Augustao Mgimwa was a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kalenga constituency from 2010 to 2014. He also served as Tanzania's Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014.
2014Juanita Moore, American actress (born 1914)[†]
Juanita Moore was an American film, television, and stage actress.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]